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Conference committee adopts draft report on bill allowing authorities to use local sales tax pledges
Summary
The conference committee on House Bill 26 12 oh 6 received a staff explanation of differences between the House and Senate versions, then unanimously adopted the committee's draft report by a 6-0 vote and adjourned.
The first conference committee on House Bill 26 12 oh 6 unanimously adopted its draft conference report after a staff briefing and brief procedural proceedings.
Pierce Lively of the Office of Legislative Legal Services summarized the principal differences between the House-engrossed and Senate-revised texts. "As the bill left the first chamber, the House, that is the re-engrossed version of the bill, the bill established a process for an authority to work with either a county or a city ... for the imposition or increasing of a sales and use tax ... to send revenue to the authority," Lively said. He noted the House version tied Department of Revenue costs to "gifts, grants, and donations," and that some provisions would not take effect unless those funds were received.
Lively told the committee the Senate's revised text "largely" streamlined that approach: increases or imposition of local sales-and-use taxes would be implemented through intergovernmental agreements between the relevant taxing entity (a county or city) and the authority. He said the Senate version removed the Department of Revenue's cost-recovery tied to gifts and grants but preserved bonding authority. "It is worth noting ... that a subsection was added ... to say that a county, not a city, that enters into an intergovernmental agreement ... would have to enter into an MOU ... with the authority and any city within the authority's boundaries," Lively said, adding that he understood that subsection to be the provision at issue in the conference committee.
Senator Linstead moved to adopt the first draft report of the conference committee; another member seconded the motion. The clerk then called the vote; committee members recorded affirmative votes and the chair announced the report passed, 6-0. The committee adjourned shortly after the vote.
The committee did not take public testimony during this session, and members did not ask follow-up questions after the staff explanation. The next procedural step is for the adopted conference committee report to be filed as appropriate with the legislative process for House Bill 26 12 oh 6.
